OF BHARATAVAR8A OR INDIA. 
185 
It is hardly necessary after this to contradict two 
other statements, namely that the term Ktilaodru is derived 
from the Sanskrit word hula and that the original trihal 
name of this race was Kala. The falseness of the first is 
obvious, while the real tribal designation, as has been proved, 
is Kidu, Kola, or Kuru. Ko (ku), mountain, is, indeed, the 
root to which the name of the Kuruvas^ Koravas, Koramas, 
Kuruvandlu or Kolavan41u must be traced. According to 
the last census 48,882 Yerukulavandlu live in the Madras 
Presidency, 9,892 in Hyderabad, and 30 in the Central 
Provinces, or altogether 58,804 in India. 
These Kurus must not be confounded with the Kolarian 
Kurs, who live on the Mahadeva hills and in the forests 
watered by the Tapti and Narbada. The Ktirs are better 
known as Muasis.^^ 
On the other hand, it is by no means improbable that the 
Kaurs of the Central Provinces stand in some relationship 
to the Kuravas, as they appear to belong to the Gonds. 
^isb a highland chief. J^iSow^-'ifc a gypsey, J&S'eie a gypsey wench. 
This tribe of fortune-tellers speak a peculiar jargon or cant : and when they 
pitch their camps near towns, they herd swine. J&SeiT^S a woman of 
this tribe : a witch." Compare also Sabda Ratndkaram, a dictionary of the 
Telugu Language, compiled bj' B. Sltaramacaryulu, Madras, 1885, pp. 150- 
151. " Jesus' . 't. s>. 1. "SSa. . . 5 2r*?)^a» . . . Jea^si. ^. a. 1. 
"SeScT^A." 
98 See the Eev. Stephen Hislop's Papers relating to the Aboriginal Tribes of 
the Central Provinces, pp. 25-27 : "We come now toa race in language at least 
quite distinct from any that have engaged our attention — a race in that 
respect not allied to the Dravidian stock, but to the family which numbers 
among its members the Kol nation. With the name of this last-mentioned 
nation, the word Kur, or Kul, as it ought properly to be pronounced, is 
evidently identical. .. The Kurs were found on the Mahadeva Hills, and 
westward in the forests on the Tapti and Narbadda, until they came into 
contact with the Bhils. On the Mahadeva Hills, where they have been 
much influenced by the Hindus, they prefer the name of Aluasi, the origin of 
which I have not been able to ascertain. " Compare also Rev. M. A. Sherring's 
Hindu Tribes and Caste, vol. II, p. 126, and Colonel Dalton's Ethnology of 
India, pp. 151, 221, 230. 
